Sunburst

[PBC]

A day of heavy rain and hail showers eases to allow a burst of sunlight to flood the Kyle of Tongue and the mountain of Ben Loyal behind. For a sense of scale, and it is hard to see, there is a house just on the left-hand side of the causeway, about 20% up from the bottom of the frame :-)

For those that don't know of the Kyle of Tongue is is a large estuary on the (very) exposed (especially in December!) north coast of Scotland

Still not sure if I have processed this one to maximise the scene, so appreciate all feedback

Phil

[RSL]

Not bad for a thirteen-year-old.

[PBC]

"Not bad for a thirteen-year-old."

Sorry lost me on that reply

[RSL]

Click on your name and check your profile.

[PBC]

Ah makes sense now! 

Well you learn something everyday :-)   Seems I am very young with a birth date of 01/01/01; wonder how that got set - looks like a default somehow.   Well now fixed and would have added forty odd years to the age, if I owned up to it.

Phil

[luxborealis]

Wonderful light, wonderful moment, beautifully captured!

I can't think of anything to critique, except for, perhaps a tad more foreground ocean, just to give a little more space along the bottom. Thanks for sharing.

[PBC]

Thanks for the feedback.   I admit it would have been nice with a bit more foreground water, but there were just dark sandbanks which I cropped off.

[stamper]

I very much like it except the water not having a yellow/orange cast on it somewhere. To be more "realistic" there should be less blue?

[PBC]

@Stamper - I see what you mean.   It think it needed a slightly warming up of the bottom 3rd over the water to balance it with the top; so I gave it a +11 on the Temp applied as a grad across the bottom in Lightroom.

Hopefully, better balanced now ?

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Nice! That works for me.

[RSL]

+1

[stamper]

This is now a very fine image.

[PBC]

Many thanks everyone.